Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 6th Aug 2005 20:49 UTC
SkyOS Beta 8.5 has just been released. New features include the Indexing Service, an SQL based file attribute and content index service which makes it possible to find your files in a fraction of a second, better developer support, and a lot of bug fixes. NVU has also been ported and is available in this release. You can read the changelog here. Update: Screenshots gallery by OSDir.
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2005-07-06
"Apple OSX" - Well, since the education market has been Apple's biggest cashcow for a long long time, they kinda have a vested interest there don't they. But besides that, as I said before, it's the exception and not the rule.
And the problem is that companies can't take GPL work, improve it and market. - It's not a problem for the author of the code and ultimately (and rightly so I might add) they're the ones that decide how their code should be used. If the company wants to use OSS code in this way then they're more than welcome to use BSD licensed code instead.
No wonder there is no cool UI like Apple for Linux. - It's just a matter of time really. Here's just one of several that are being worked on:
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xshots
Can't wait 'till it's ready!